Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.